Helping to Solve the 9 Billion-People Question : Arizona Genomics Institute

Helping to Solve the 9 Billion-People Question

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Institute Profile

The Arizona Genomics Institute (AGI) was formed in 2002 when Dr. Rod Wing joined the School of Plant Sciences at University of Arizona. The primary focus of AGI is in the area of structural, evolutionary and functional genomics of crop plants. AGI is divided into 5 Centers each lead by a Center Leader and a senior Manager (BAC Library Construction Center, BAC/EST Resource Center, Sequencing & Physical Mapping Center [including: production sequencing and fingerprinting, and sequence finishing], Bioinformatics Center and the Evolutionary and Functional Genomics Center. AGI is housed in the state of the art Thomas W. Keating Bioresearch Building on the northeast part of campus near the Medical School. AGI currently employees about 30 scientists and is primarily funded through federal grants, private contracts, and the Bud Antle Endowed Chair in Plant Molecular Genetics.

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Resources

BAC/EST Resources Available for Distribution
Libraries: 365
Clones: 15,083,328

Submission to GenBank
Traces: 3,913,203
Sequences: 4,455,649 nucleotide seq.es
477,353 (All except GSS AND EST)
722,405 EST (Expressed Sequence Tags)
3,255,891 GSS (Genome Survey Sequence)

Recent News

The DOE Joint Genome Institute Expands Capabilities via New Partnerships Posted by webmaster

With the publication last year of its strategic plan, “Forging the Future — A Ten-Year Strategic Vision” the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has positioned itself to provide the most current technology and expertise to their users so that they can address pressing energy and environmental scientific challenges.

An important early step in this process is the launch of the Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program (ETOP). The primary purpose of the ETOP is to develop and support selected new technologies that DOE JGI could establish to add value to the high throughput sequencing it currently carries out for its users. The program was one of several recommendations that emerged from the DOE JGI’s strategic planning as well as a complementary process carried out by DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research. Now, a new set of partnerships is taking shape in response to the ETOP’s first call for proposals. These span the development of new scalable DNA synthesis technologies to the latest approaches to high throughput sequencing and characterization of single microbial cells from complex environmental samples.